Elizabeth A Eldredge

Kingdoms and Chiefdoms of Southeastern Africa

Oral Traditions and History, 1400-1830

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines indigenous oral traditions and histories in order to explain the factors propelling sociopolitical consolidation and the emergence of chiefdoms and kingdoms in nineteenth-century southeastern Africa.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 450
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 830g
• ISBN-13: 9781580465144
• ISBN-10: 1580465145
• Artikelnr.: 42648172

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth A. Eldredge

Inhaltsangabe

Preface History and Oral Traditions in Southeastern Africa Oral Traditions
in the Reconstruction of Southern African History Shipwreck Survivor
Accounts from the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Founding Families and
Chiefdoms East of the Drakensberg Maputo Bay Peoples and Chiefdoms before
1740 Maputo Bay, 1740-1820 Eastern Chiefdoms of Southern Africa, 1740-1815
Zulu Conquests and the Consolidation of Power, 1815-21 Military Campaigns,
Migrations, and Political Reconfiguration Ancestors, Descent Lines, and
Chiefdoms West of the Drakensberg before 1820 The Caledon River Valley and
the BaSotho of Moshoeshoe, 1821-33 The Expansion of the European Presence
at Maputo Bay, 1821-33 Southern African Kingdoms on the Eve of Colonization
Appendix A: AmaSwazi King List Appendix B: Chronology of Conflicts,
Migrations, and Political Reconfiguration East of the Drakensberg in the
Era of Shaka Appendix C: Interviewees from the James Stuart Collection of
Oral Traditions Notes Bibliography Index